As an aid to our venture capital network around the country, Renaissance semi-annually assembles the “Hotlist” – a listing of companies that we’ve identified as the most promising early-stage companies in Michigan that anticipate raising venture capital in the next 12-18 months. This group of around 50 high potential companies is curated from hundreds of recommendations made by Renaissance local partners (universities, incubators, accelerators, seed funds, angel networks, etc.).
Current Hotlist companies are shown below, sortable by sector and with embedded links where their pitch decks and short pitch videos may be downloaded.
Additional data is available on each of these companies via the master Hotlist excel file which can be downloaded here.
For introductions to any of these companies or for additional information on the Hotlist, please contact Vince Nystrom at 734-255-7167.
| Company Name | Primary Technology Sector | Brief Description | Deck | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86 Repairs | Information Technology (IOT, Enterprise, Internet) | 86 Repairs is a subscription service that manages the repair and maintenance process for restaurant groups, providing data insights that have never existed before in the massive facilities industry | Deck | Video |
| AaDya Security | Information Technology (IOT, Enterprise, Internet) - Cybersecurity | AaDya provides smart, simple, effective cybersecurity software solutions for small and medium-sized businesses | Deck | Video |
| Akadeum Life Sciences | OTHER (Life Science Tools) | Akadeum is fixing sample preparation to improve human health. Akadeum uses microbubble-based products to solve long-standing problems, by creating research kits, partnerships, and proprietary devices | Deck | Video |
| ARUtility | Energy / Energy Efficiency | ARUtility is an augmented reality utility locating solution that allows users to see where utilities are located above and below the ground surface. The mission is to create a safer work site, a more | Deck | Video |
| BitLyft Cybersecurity | Information Technology (IOT, Enterprise, Internet) | BitLyft, via it's platform BitLyft AIR, is brining advanced SOAR and threat intelligence to organizations of all sizes via proprietary AI and ML solutions that allow for proactive cybersecurity | Deck | Video |
| BlueConduit | OTHER (Infrastructure and Water) | BlueConduit uses AI to help water utilities inventory and locate their lead service lines. | Deck | Video |
| Blumira | Information Technology (IOT, Enterprise, Internet) - Cybersecurity | Blumira is a software-as-a-service cybersecurity company offering an automated threat detection & response platform so organizations can quickly identify & remediate cybersecurity threats | Deck | Video |
| BrandXR | Information Technology (IOT, Enterprise, Internet) | The BrandXR Studio is a no-code platform that allows anyone to create Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR) apps. No prior experience or training required | Deck | Video |
| CertifID LLC | FinTech | CertifID prevents wire fraud and business email compromise scams and provide direct insurance to protect the transfer of funds made via wire or ACH transfer | Deck | Video |
| Courage Therapeutics | Healthcare - Biotech/Pharma | Courage Therapeutics is a discovery stage biopharma focused on eating disorder drug development. The company is establishing products including anorexia nervosa and obesity caused by rare mutations | Deck | Video |
| Diet ID | Healthcare - Services or Health IT | Diet ID is a bold advance in managing diet-related disease. Diet ID digitizes diet assessment and management, replacing millions of paper-based solutions, saving time, money, and improving outcomes | Deck | Video |
| Dynamo Metrics | Information Technology (IOT, Enterprise, Internet) | Dynamo Metrics builds planning, analytics, and reporting software for local governments. The software transforms city and county data into insights that help city leaders make data-driven decisions. | Deck | Video |
| EagleView Imaging, Inc. | Healthcare - Medical Device | EagleView develops augmented reality technologies to make surgery easier and safer. The company already generated early income. Its clinical partners include Henry Ford Health System | Deck | Video |
| Ecovia Renewables Inc. | Advanced Manufacturing / Materials | Ecovia creates high-performing, cost-competitive, eco-friendly ingredients and materials for a variety of products | Deck | Video |
| Elevate K-12 | Education Tech | Elevateck12 solves the growing shortage problem plaguing US K-12 schools via live stream instruction into a K-12 classroom.Elevateck12 owns the tech, the instruction and the content and are a Instruction as a Service | Deck | Video |
| Eloquence Communications, Inc. | Healthcare - Services or Health IT | Eloquence Communications, Inc. is a healthcare IT company with a portfolio of products improving patient outcomes through streamlining communication and workflow with a focus on health disparities. | Deck | Video |
| Equal Health | Healthcare - Services or Health IT | Direct primary care is more affordable and flexible than onsite clinics, but difficult to coordinate. Equal unlocks DPC so employers can offer primary care memberships for employees’ routine care | Deck | Video |
| Espervita Therapeutics | Healthcare - Biotech/Pharma | Espervita Therapeutics is focused on the discovery of metabolic reprogramming therapies for the treatment of cancers in areas with significant unmet medical need | Deck | Video |
| EVOQ Therapeutics | Healthcare - Biotech/Pharma | EVOQ Therapeutics NanoDisc Vaccine technology is being developed for both autoimmune disease (e.g. Type 1 diabetes, Celiac disease, MS) and cancer (e.g. colorectal, lung) | Deck | Video |
| Facility Health | Healthcare - Services or Health IT | Facility Health is transforming how health care facilities are managed across the country by helping facility and finance teams work together to solve the capital planning puzzle for CapEx and OpEx | Deck | |
| FirstIgnite | Information Technology (IOT, Enterprise, Internet) | FirstIgnite develops AI-powered business development tools for commercializing research | Deck | Video |
| Forever Labs | Healthcare - Biotech/Pharma | Forever Labs stores your stem cells so you can live healthier, longer. This enables a b2b opportunity selling bespoke stem cells to the pharma industry. Forever Labs also have a lucrative patent licensing agreement | Deck | |
| FreightRoll | Information Technology (IOT, Enterprise, Internet) | FreightRoll is a leading digital trade documentation and visibility platform for the trucking industry | ||
| Fusion Coolant Systems, Inc. | Advanced Manufacturing / Materials | Fusion utilizes unique characteristics of supercritical CO2 to deliver clean cooling/lubrication to machining operations, becoming a new standard for sustainable technology and manufacturing practices | Deck | Video |
| Genomenon, Inc. | Healthcare - Services or Health IT | Genomenon’s AI-powered software connects patient’s DNA with genomic research and puts answers at the fingertips of doctors to diagnose rare diseases and pharma researchers in drug discovery | Deck | Video |
| Great Lakes Crystal Technologies | Advanced Manufacturing / Materials | Mission is to become the lead supplier of crystalline diamond materials for advanced applications in particle detection, photon optics, ultra-high performance electronics, & quantum technologies | Deck | Video |
| IMMY Inc. | OTHER - Augmented and Virtual Reality | IMMY builds the most advanced imaging optic in the world for Augmented and Virtual Reality glasses. It is the only system that emulates true human vision, which is the key to a successful product | Deck | Video |
| Impellia, Inc. | Healthcare - Services or Health IT | Impellia makes biometric and sports wearable data valuable through individualized, predictive analytics to help athletes at all levels optimize performance and improve resiliency | Deck | Video |
| KUHMUTE | Automotive / Mobility | Universal Charging for Micromobility | Deck | Video |
| Lift AI | Information Technology (IOT, Enterprise, Internet) | Hardware-enabled software company for the elevator service industry to increase uptime, improve safety and decrease costs for elevators, via IoT software and real-time insights | ||
| Lingco Language Labs | Education Tech | Personalized learning leads to better outcomes, but very few tools enable it. Lingco modernizes language learning using adaptive technology to give each student a personalized learning experience. | Deck | Video |
| Medorion | Healthcare - Services or Health IT | Member intelligence and communication SaaS solution for Health Plans | Deck | Video |
| Modus | Healthcare - Services or Health IT | Healthcare buyer’s agent with digital infrastructure that vets physicians for the best value, standardize quality outcomes, measure and guide physicians to optimize patient functional outcome/$ spent | Deck | Video |
| Nickels | FinTech | Provides credit unions and banks with a federal student debt guidance service, allowing them to attract millennials and build new business opportunities with them | Deck | |
| NS Nanotech | Advanced Manufacturing / Materials | NanoLEDs by NS Nanotech are a new platform technology that will solve persistent problems in the display industry, while bringing an engineering approach to reducing the spread of COVID-19 | Deck | Video |
| Orbion Space Technology | Advanced Manufacturing / Materials (Space Technology) | Orbion develops plasma propulsion systems that small satellites use to maneuver in space | ||
| Pathware Inc | Healthcare - Medical Device | Pathware's mission is to eliminate friction in the diagnostic workflow. First step is to standardize biopsy quality at the point-of-care to make repeated biopsy procedures a thing of the past | Deck | Video |
| Peptinovo Biopharma | Healthcare - Biotech/Pharma | Peptinovo uses cardiovascular innovation to selectively carry drugs to cancer cells, greatly improving the efficacy of leading chemotherapy drugs while also significantly reducing side-effects | Deck | Video |
| Phenomics Health Inc. | Healthcare - Services or Health IT | Phenomics Health Inc. (PHI) is a platform bioinformatics precision medicine company using AI/machine learning to develop pharmacological clinical treatment decision support products and services | Deck | Video |
| Photon Semantics | Automotive / Mobility | Photon Semantics provides patented products and services designed to improve the speed, accuracy, safety, and cost of perception sensor systems | ||
| Pocketnest | FinTech | Pocketnest (B2B2C, Saas) provides comprehensive financial planning for the DIY'ers by licensing software to financial institutions (banks, credit unions, advisors & benefit providers) | Deck | Video |
| PTM Therapeutics, Inc. | Healthcare - Biotech/Pharma | PTM Therapeutics is a pre-clinical stage startup developing an antibody therapeutic (hPTM-001) for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) | Deck | Video |
| RIPPLE SCIENCE CORPORATION | Healthcare - Services or Health IT | Ripple Science accelerates clinical research with its secure, HIPAA compliant suite of tools. Ripple helps customers recruit more participants, faster and reduces patients lost to follow-up | Deck | Video |
| S3D Precision Dispensing | Advanced Manufacturing / Materials | S3D enables the digital manufacturing of ultra-short run electronics & smart surfaces. The technology dispenses inks, lubricants, OLED materials, & bio-fluids creating micron-scale features | Deck | Video |
| SampleServe, Inc. | Information Technology (IOT, Enterprise, Internet) | Environmental professionals spend about 40% of their time turning data into reports. The SampleServe platform digitizes sample data and turns it into graphical images, maps, and reports in seconds | Deck | Video |
| Seraph Biosciences | Healthcare - Biotech/Pharma | Seraspec® is a, miniaturized, point of care platform. The proprietary device, which requires no reagents, is capable of bacterial or viral identification in 3-5 min and AST testing in under an hour | Deck | Video |
| Shoptelligence Inc. | Marketing / Advertising / Sales | Shoptelligence creates engaging shopping experiences on retailers’ websites and helps them streamline shopping with powerful analytics. Increased site engagement, raise revenue, and create loyal customers | Deck | |
| SkySync | Information Technology (IOT, Enterprise, Internet) | SkySync is a next-generation enterprise data integration, orchestration & governance platform. Built for incredible speed & scale, it enables the largest enterprise to protect and control their data | Deck | Video |
| SpinTech, Inc. | Healthcare - Medical Device | SpinTech is a MRI technology company whose software drives 40% faster brain imaging while enabling improved detection and quantification of key neurological biomarkers through AI & machine learning | Deck | Video |
| SU2 Systems, Inc. | FinTech | SU2 Systems is a fintech serving individual and institutional traders through leading brokers. The flagship product, Orion Multi-Trader (OMT), is an open architecture, multi-asset trading platform. | Deck | Video |
| Sunhomes.io | Energy / Energy Efficiency | Provide off-grid sewer, power and water service to real estate developers. Expensive power = expensive sewer and water. SunHomes has the cheapest off-grid power in the US | Deck | Video |
| The Patient Company | Healthcare - Medical Device | The Patient Company has perfected the lateral patient transfer process through the development and production of SimPull™ patient transfer device | Video | |
| TRACE Bio | Healthcare - Medical Device | TRACE Bio is an early stage technology company which seeks to revolutionize health monitoring with novel on-body and at-home physiological monitoring solutions | Deck | Video |
| Wind Craft Aviation Inc. | Automotive / Mobility | Wind Craft Aviation develops aviation and energy technologies for high-impact applications in emerging markets. Invent and commercialize individual technologies as well as entire E-VTOL aircraft | Deck | Video |
| XR Therapeutics | Healthcare - Services or Health IT | xR Therapeutics is a Michigan-based digital health company, commercializing ExposXR, the first augmented reality solution for the treatment of phobias and other anxiety disorders | Deck | Video |
| LIVEGISTICS, LLC | Advanced Manufacturing / Materials | Cloud based operating system providing a multi-tiered, plug and play platform, for the heavy civil/demo construction industry |